configurable naming strategy

[ghost]

I'd like to be able to name my Activities *Activity without having to reference *ActivityActivity in code... it would be cool if transfuse could use a configurable naming strategy... So ultimately I could end up with MyActivity -> MyTransfuseActivity and MyFragment -> MyTransfuseFragment ... or something like that, without spelling out said strategy on every single component.

[johncarl81]

Great idea and this may go hand in hand with different manifest generation strategies... ie: you having to manually add the activity to the manifest. Also, this would be a nice extension to add in the plugin environment I've been envisioning.

Have you tried using the Components utility? This gives you a mapping of all generated components in the system in the hope that you wouldn't have to reference a class that doen't exist before compile time:

Components.get(MyTransfuseActivity.class) -> MyTransfuseActivityActivity.class

Looks like this is missing from the docs.

[ghost]

Ah, I had not played with that yet...

It doesn't help too much when I need to inject the concrete version of a component.. and it doesn't look like it helps me get the strategy for an activity component.

[johncarl81]

Right, referencing the Intent Strategies is one of the few times when you need to use the generated classes directly.

How are you injecting the concrete version of a component?

[ghost]

When I want to inject some number of fragments into an activity so they can be swapped in and out based on my navigation widgets I am doing it by the concrete component name... is there a better way?

[johncarl81]

Fragments do need to be referenced directly as well currently... but I wonder if we could make a Fragments utility to instantiate the related generated code instead of having you do it, ie:

Fragments.create(MyTransfuseFragment.class) -> new instance of MyTransfuseFragmentFragment

thoughts?

[ghost]

I think that would be helpful in most cases... aside from the injection I am treating them as their base class (or at least I could be... )